“No longer in denial” — Israeli settlements admit years of serial, filmed child rape

Israel’s long-running paedophilia scandal has exploded. A new documentary shown on Israeli TV has capped years of campaigning by victims and allies this week. Titled “No longer in denial: Gush Etzion admits to ritual abuse”, the Kan 11 ‘Zman Emet’ programme contained testimonies by victims living in illegal settlements that their leaders engaged in the gang-rape of children. The ‘leaders’ filmed the abuse and distributed it to their fellow paedophiles — and the local council has acknowledged the truth of the allegations.

Here’s the full segment with subtitles. Their YouTube channel abruptly disallowed people outside of occupied Palestine to watch it. https://t.co/Bs0kZjRbud

— susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى (@susanabulhawa) May 28, 2026

The admissions come after years of allegations of serial child rape by settlers and their leaders. The accusations reach to the top — Shoshana Strook said her government-minister mother, her father and her brother had raped her throughout her childhood and filmed it. Strook was later found dead of supposed suicide — shortly after saying that if she was found dead, it would not be suicide. Benjamin Netanyahu’s choice as ambassador to the UK has also been accused of sexual abuse.

Israel — out in the open

But the Gush Etzion admissions have removed even the most vaporous doubts about the issue of entrenched and widespread child sexual abuse in Israel. The Gush Etzion Regional Council covers a cluster of villages on stolen Palestinian land directly south of Jerusalem. It has issued a statement admitting the abuse and urging more victims to come forward. Better late than never, presumably, but still undeniably self-serving and seeking to put itself in the camp of the victims:

We wish to state in the clearest possible terms: we condemn acts of abuse and those who commit them. Sexual abuse, and certainly that described as systematic and ritualistic, is a heinous crime that wounds not only the victims, but the entire fabric of our community.

As even pro-Israel, English language site JFeed has noted, the council and other senior figures spent years denying the allegations:

For an extended period, allegations of severe and ritualistic sexual abuse within the religious community had been met with denials, dismissal of witnesses, and deep skepticism from within. This time, the council chose a starkly different path.

“The acts described, attributed among others to people from Gush Etzion, are an expression of pure evil and moral depravity that has no place in human society, and certainly not in our community,” the council’s official statement read.

The Israeli regime remains in denial. When the United Nations added Israel to its blacklist of nations weaponising rape and sexual violence, the Israel Foreign Ministry X account denounced the list as “shameful and absurd”. It had spent years trying to get Hamas added to the same list for disproven allegations of sexual violence on 7 October 2023:

Israel spent 2 years running an elaborate lobbying campaign to have Hamas added to this UN sex-abuse blacklist, making the case that the UN designation was thorough, evidence-based and widely respected, which was why it was so important for them to get Hamas added to it.

Now… https://t.co/g2QwwFkMNA

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) May 28, 2026

Electronic Intifada‘s David Sheen published a link to the Kan 11 programme on YouTube, but it will only play via a VPN set to Israel and no English subtitles are available:

The new state TV report that triggered the above admission by Gush Etzion, the West Bank settlements south of Jerusalem, that their religious and political leaders have long created child pornography by filming when they gang-rape kids in the community https://t.co/TRHkl9GLqu

— David Sheen (@davidsheen) May 27, 2026

A Zionist thing

Israel is currently sheltering well over 2,000 convicted or alleged paedophiles. In 2025, the US allowed one of its senior cyber-spies to flee to Israel after he was caught trying to arrange sex with a child. But the iron link between Zionism and paedophilia is not limited to Israelis. In the US, supporters of Israel are frequently caught out, from serial child-rapist, trafficker and Israeli spy Jeffrey Epstein to, in 2026, the three well-known Alexander brothers.

And in the UK, paedophilia convictions among Israel’s supporters, especially in the Labour party, seem to run at a far higher rate than among the general population. They rarely receive more than a ‘slap on the wrist’ from a corrupt establishment — and their convictions receive only cursory media attention.

‘MSM’ silence

Just as they have turned a blind eye to Israel’s slaughter of hundreds of its own on 7 October 2023, the UK ‘mainstream’ media have so far ignored the Gush Etzion scandal — despite both being openly admitted in Hebrew-language media. Why ever could that be…?